Three new books chronicle businesses where executive self-enrichment at the expense of workers — and sometimes the law — prevails.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/books/review/new-business-books.html
Audiobooks have let the artist “stay invested in stories while working with my hands.” Her new project: illustrating Jamaica Kincaid’s “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children.�...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/books/review/kara-walker-jamaica-kincaid.html
As it cancels events amid criticism of its response to the Israel-Hamas war, PEN America faces questions about when an organization devoted to free speech for all should take sides.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/arts/pen-free-expression-gaza.html
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/books/review/alice-munro-appraisal.html
As recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/books/review/adam-higginbotham-challenger.html
In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/books/review/massacre-in-the-clouds-kim-a-wagner.html
Allen Bratton’s novel transforms the rise of Henry V into a contemporary story about a brash gay man grappling with abuse and guilt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/books/review/henry-henry-allen-bratton.html
“Our Kindred Creatures” details the rise, and contradictions, of the animal welfare movement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/books/review/our-kindred-creatures-wasik-murphy.html
Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/books/alice-munro-dead.html
In “The Race to the Future,” Kassia St. Clair chronicles the 8,000-mile caper that helped change the landscape forever.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/books/review/race-to-the-future-kassia-st-clair.html
Tracing his path from homelessness to proud parenthood, the writer Carvell Wallace recounts a lifetime of joy and pain in his intimate memoir.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/books/review/another-word-for-love-carvell-wallace.html
In “Chasing Hope,” the veteran Times journalist remembers the highs and lows of his storied career.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/books/review/chasing-hope-nicholas-kristof.html
In “Morning After the Revolution,” an attack on progressive activism, the journalist Nellie Bowles relies more on sarcasm than argument or ideas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/books/review/morning-after-the-revolution-nellie-bowles.html
In the riveting “Skies of Thunder,” Caroline Alexander considers what it took to get supplies to Allied ground troops in China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/books/review/skies-of-thunder-caroline-alexander.html
A renowned member of the New York School of poets, he also found accidental notoriety when he was photographed during the 1968 uprising at Columbia University.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/books/david-shapiro-dead.html
In fiction, Ali Sethi wrote about being queer in Pakistan. Now he’s singing his story.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/t-magazine/ali-sethi-pasoori.html
The professor and social commentator Glenn Loury opens up about his vices in a candid new memoir.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/books/review/glenn-loury-late-admissions.html
A new book, “The Light Eaters,” looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/books/zoe-schlanger-light-eaters.html
In “Fat Leonard,” Craig Whitlock investigates one of the worst corruption scandals in U.S. military history.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/books/review/fat-leonard-craig-whitlock.html
As Michelle T. King demonstrates in this moving and ambitious biography, Fu Pei-mei was far more than “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/books/review/chop-fry-watch-learn-michelle-t-king.html
An anxious artist’s road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In “All Fours,” the desire for change is familiar. How to satisfy it isn’t.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/books/review/all-fours-miranda-july.html
In Kimberly King Parsons’s witty, profane novel, “We Were the Universe,” a young mother seeks to salve a profound loss.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/books/review/we-were-the-universe-kimberly-king-parsons.html
In her intimate memoir, “Rebel Girl,” the punk-rock heroine Kathleen Hanna recalls a life of trauma, triumph and riot grrrl rebellion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/books/review/rebel-girl-kathleen-hanna.html
Barbara Kingsolver’s debut, and a bad seed’s beginnings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/books/read-like-wind-recommendations-babies-in-fiction.html
An entertaining new history by Steven Johnson explores an explosive moment when terror and nascent surveillance collided.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/books/review/the-infernal-machine-stephen-johnson.html
Jessica Shattuck’s “Last House” dips into the cultural intrigues of 20th-century America, but keeps its nose surprisingly clean.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/books/review/last-house-jessica-shattuck.html
Inspired by her own family’s past, Claire Messud’s “This Strange Eventful History” unfolds over seven decades and two wars.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/books/review/this-strange-eventful-history-claire-messud.html
For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/world/europe/bernard-pivot-dead.html
The best-selling author of dark fantasy novels for Y.A. and adult audiences discusses her career and her stand-alone new historical fantasy, “The Familiar.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/books/review/podcast-leigh-bardugo-interview.html
It’s called The Lynx, after the wildcat native to the state. “We wanted something a little fierce,” she said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/books/lauren-groff-bookstore-lynx.html
For The Book Review Podcast’s May book club, we’ll talk about “James,” Percival Everett’s radical reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/books/review/james-percival-everett-book-club.html
A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life.
Alki Zei’s Greek classic, set in the birthplace of democracy in the mid-1930s, feels eerily relevant in today’s America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/books/review/alki-zei-the-wildcat-behind-glass.html
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/books/review/new-books-recommendations.html
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Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain’s most famous literary son.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/books/review/martin-amis.html
In “Fires in the Dark,” Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a “love song to psychotherapy.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/books/fires-in-the-dark-kay-redfield-jamison.html
“NB by J.C.” collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/books/james-campbell-nb-by-jc.html
“Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/books/review/machado-de-assis-dom-casmurro.html
Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing “Whose Body?,” the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/books/review/dorothy-sayers-whose-body-at-100.html
Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/books/review-the-late-americans-brandon-taylor.html
The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/books/best-martin-amis-books.html